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A review of religion, politics, and culture since 1924, edited by lay Catholics. Subscribe here: https://t.co/bVOvJQ2oft
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Joined March 2009
The November issue is here! Feat: - Lauren Kane on St. Godric - Alexander Stern on technology and deculturation - An interview with @blgtylr - The Editors on Leo & care for the poor And more! https://t.co/KvonkCRHWP
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St. Godric’s transformation from successful merchant to ascetic hermit illuminates the ways people relate their religious beliefs to their wealth—in the Middle Ages and today. Lauren Kane essays on the 'patron saint of strivers': https://t.co/rG2SiFYLbm
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St. Godric’s transformation from successful merchant to ascetic hermit illuminates the ways people relate their religious beliefs to their wealth—in the Middle Ages and today.
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Why do parents feel compelled to participate in a technological system that we all agree is burdensome and harmful to families? https://t.co/49UPtvKLsv
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Why do parents feel compelled to participate in a technological system that we all agree is burdensome and harmful to families?
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"The internet democratizes expression but at the same time flattens it." Alexander Stern on the state of inner life in an age of deculturation: https://t.co/AdfSGPNv7i
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While modern technologies seemingly offer new horizons of freedom, individual experience is being constrained by a flattening mass culture.
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"Anxiety about the effects of money on our souls goes all the way back to the first Christians." Lauren Kane on how the life of St. Godric teaches us about faith and wealth, then and now: https://t.co/rG2SiFYLbm
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St. Godric’s transformation from successful merchant to ascetic hermit illuminates the ways people relate their religious beliefs to their wealth—in the Middle Ages and today.
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"It would be half a dozen years before public schools in Ashland were integrated. But Daddy, impatient with Jim Crow and all its inequities and indignities, didn’t want to wait." Don Wycliff reflects on life in Kentucky in 1954: https://t.co/h4soinv853
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“Mr. Wycliff, the bishop says that the Catholic schools are for all Catholic children,” the priest said. “Your children will be welcome in our school.”
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"In each, goodness appears fragile, naïve, almost out of place—and yet precisely for that reason, revolutionary." @antoniospadaro on ordinary goodness in Pope Leo's four favorite films: https://t.co/sPao0O6j3j
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The protagonists of Pope Leo's favorite movies are ordinary people who, against all evidence, still believe in the possibility of goodness.
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"The bishops now clearly want to be heard on the issue of immigration. But it’s unclear who they’re trying to convince." @HeidiSchlumpf breaks down the U.S. bishops' disappointing statement on immigration: https://t.co/nDp8xjiuoe
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The USCCB released a statement in support of immigrants—but its failure to mention Trump and ICE undermines its welcome message.
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Reflecting on his childhood in Kentucky, Don Wycliff remembers a community that went beyond business as usual.
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“Mr. Wycliff, the bishop says that the Catholic schools are for all Catholic children,” the priest said. “Your children will be welcome in our school.”
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"Where coding stands in for culture, the inner life of the individual becomes reduced." Alexander Stern: Is inner life on the way out? https://t.co/AdfSGPNv7i
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While modern technologies seemingly offer new horizons of freedom, individual experience is being constrained by a flattening mass culture.
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The USCCB released a statement in support of immigrants—but its failure to mention Trump and ICE undermines its welcome message. Analysis from @HeidiSchlumpf: https://t.co/nDp8xjiuoe
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The USCCB released a statement in support of immigrants—but its failure to mention Trump and ICE undermines its welcome message.
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.@daniel_dsj2110 "a compulsory..program in which the children of both the rich and poor would spend part of their youth serving the community—would be a thoroughly democratic way to address inequality and rechannel the energies that feed the war machine."
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What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.
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@MassimoFaggioli : “More and more, the veneration for the authority of tradition passes through the performative contempt for the authorities of the Church.”
"I wonder what Bishop Marcel Lefebvre would make of Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrating the pre–Vatican II 'Latin Mass' in St. Peter’s Basilica." @MassimoFaggioli on the state of Catholic traditionalism after Francis: https://t.co/0JBMS66WRQ
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What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer. An essay from @daniel_dsj2110: https://t.co/uqC0knFD9h
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What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.
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In ‘The Last Supper,’ @Paul_R_Elie tells the stories of artists whose struggles with their own religious beliefs amid the AIDS pandemic inspired often-controversial art. @PaulBMoses reviews: https://t.co/fHrhEvstrG
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In ‘The Last Supper,’ Paul Elie tells the stories of artists whose struggles with their own religious beliefs amid the AIDS pandemic inspired often-controversial art.
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"I wonder what Bishop Marcel Lefebvre would make of Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrating the pre–Vatican II 'Latin Mass' in St. Peter’s Basilica." @MassimoFaggioli on the state of Catholic traditionalism after Francis: https://t.co/0JBMS66WRQ
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Traditionalism today is less about questioning Vatican II theology and liturgy and more about waging broader culture wars.
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"If being antiwar is so popular among the American people, why can’t presidents do what is popular and avoid war?" @daniel_dsj2110 on William James's vision of pacifism without passivity: https://t.co/uqC0knFD9h
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What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.
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Highly recommend Hannah Zeavin’s new history of motherhood and media reviewed here in Commonweal:
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Why do parents feel compelled to participate in a technological system that we all agree is burdensome and harmful to families?
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I wrote a piece for Commonweal Mag on William James’s ‘moral equivalent of war’ a hundred years later. https://t.co/uIjUABLkPM
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Catholic Traditionalism After Francis. It’s not just about the liturgy My latest in @commonwealmag
https://t.co/XOVSwE9lNf
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Traditionalism today is less about questioning Vatican II theology and liturgy and more about waging broader culture wars.
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"What kind of people do we have to become in order to achieve peaceful cities, societies, and states?" @daniel_dsj2110 revisits William James's prescription for national conscription
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What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.
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